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Threatened and Endangered Animals of Alabama

Alabama Animals Protected by the Endangered Species Act

By Laura Klappenbach, About.com

Snail Darter (Percina tanasi).

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The following list is an adaptation of data published at the The US Fish & Wildlife Service's Endangered Species Program Website. For the most current data, please refer to US Fish & Wildlife Service database (TESS).

Panther, Florida (Puma (=Felis) concolor coryi)
Pearlymussel, cracking (Hemistena lata)
Pearlymussel, dromedary (Dromus dromas)
Pearlymussel, littlewing (Pegias fabula)
Pebblesnail, flat (Lepyrium showalteri)
Pelican, brown (Pelecanus occidentalis)
Pigtoe, dark (Pleurobema furvum)
Pigtoe, finerayed (Fusconaia cuneolus)
Pigtoe, finerayed (Fusconaia cuneolus)
Pigtoe, flat (Pleurobema marshalli)
Pigtoe, heavy (Pleurobema taitianum)
Pigtoe, oval (Pleurobema plenum)
Pigtoe, rough (Pleurobema plenum)
Pigtoe, shiny (Fusconaia cor)
Pigtoe, southern (Pleurobema georgianum)
Pimpleback, orangefoot (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus cooperianus)
Plover, piping (Charadrius melodus)
Pocketbook, finelined (Lampsilis altilis)
Pocketbook, shinyrayed (Lampsilis subangulata)
Riffleshell, tan (Epioblasma florentina walkeri (=E. walkeri))
Ring pink (mussel) (Obovaria retusa)
Riversnail, Anthony's (Athearnia anthonyi)
Rocksnail, painted (Leptoxis taeniata)
Rocksnail, plicate (Leptoxis plicata)
Rocksnail, round (Leptoxis ampla)
Salamander, flatwoods (Ambystoma cingulatum)
Salamander, Red Hills (Phaeognathus hubrichti)
Sculpin, pygmy (Cottus paulus (=pygmaeus))
Sea turtle, green (Chelonia mydas)
Sea turtle, hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata)
Sea turtle, Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii)
Sea turtle, leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea)
Sea turtle, loggerhead (Caretta caretta)
Shiner, blue (Cyprinella caerulea)
Shiner, Cahaba (Notropis cahabae)
Shiner, palezone (Notropis albizonatus)
Shrimp, Alabama cave (Palaemonias alabamae)
Slabshell, Chipola (Elliptio chipolaensis)
Snail, armored (Pyrgulopsis (=Marstonia) pachyta)
Snail, tulotoma (Tulotoma magnifica)
Snake, eastern indigo (Drymarchon corais couperi)
Stirrupshell (Quadrula stapes)
Stork, wood (Mycteria americana)
Sturgeon, Alabama (Scaphirhynchus suttkusi)
Sturgeon, gulf (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi)
Tortoise, gopher (Gopherus polyphemus)
Turtle, Alabama red-belly (Pseudemys alabamensis)
Turtle, flattened musk (Sternotherus depressus)
Wartyback, white (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus cicatricosus)
Whale, finback (Balaenoptera physalus)
Whale, humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Wolf, gray (Canis lupus)
Woodpecker, red-cockaded (Picoides borealis)

Source

US Fish & Wildlife Service. 'Threatened and Endangered Species (Alabama)' (On-line), The Endangered Species Program. Accessed April 29, 2008.

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